I am having trouble exporting any movies out of i-movie whether it is to i-dvd (which I am desparately needing), mobile me, quick time, etc. I-movie always crashes just before the exporting is complete and never gets exported. Please help. Thank you!
Mac OS X (10.6.8), i-movie 09
Since all those options are crashing, is it also true if you go to Share > Movie and choose the Medium size and export to the desktop this fails too? If this crashes, double check how much free space is available on your Hard drive. To do this go to the desktop, hold down the Control key and click on the hard drive icon. Choose Get Info and then check the space listed under Available: xxx.xxGB
If that amount of free space is too small (say less than 1GB) it means you don't have enough room to Share anything out of iMovie. That's one obvious thing to look for right now.
Ok, I tried to export the movie by going to Share>Movie and chose Medium Size. Tried to export to desktop. That failed as well. However, I do have almost 62 GB of free space. So now what? 😟
Oh, and thank you so much by the way!!!!
Yeah, that's pretty fundamentally broken. Something I've seen suggested at times includes throwing out the preferences file for iMovie so it can reset itself to default settings. More than likely that preference file sits in:
Library>Preferences folder and is named com.Apple.iMovie.plist
If you drag that file to the desktop. Launch iMovie and try another Share>Movie>Medium size to the desktop and see if it goes to the end. How long is the run-time of the video? Is it 15 minutes or hours and hours?
Yeah, I have already thrown away the preference file for i-movie and still no go. The movie is only about 15 minutes. Time to take it in? 🙂
The very last thing to try is to see if running iMovie from a different user account works.
Go the Control Panels, create a new user under Accounts, then login to that account. Copy a few video clips into iMovie Events Library, pull those into a project and do a quick Share > Export Movie to the desktop. It doesn't need to be more than a few seconds even to see if changing user accounts helps. Sometimes that can get around some corruption issues with the iMovie installation. If that fails, take it in. You will have exhausted every possibility at that point.
I was afraid of that. I will try that. Thanks so much!
Hi, could you export your movie? I have the same problem!!! iMovie always crashes just before the exporting is complete.
Help!!!
Wow. That worked. I created a new account and opened imovie. It displayed a small amount of old clips. Made a test movie minute or two in length and exported a movie to the desktop. So what does that tell me is wrong with my i-movie in user one? Thanks so much for your help elikness. Rogeliox, hope this helps you!
It's definitely not the best option. But it is at least ONE option, especially in extreme cases like this. I'm glad you got something working even if it isn't perfect. Good Luck!
Well I do the same thing, and it works with a 1 minute proyect, but when I do the same large project it crashes again...but thanks anyway.
I have the same problem, tried everything that's been suggested. I upgraded to Lion. Could that be the problem??? I loged into "Guest Account" and was able to use iMovie and burn a to a DVD. However, if you shutdown all files created are lost!
Crash Report shows:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000e902e885
Not sure at which line the problem occurs.
I have just recieved my MacBook Pro and Imovie was working great with snow leopard until i upgraded to lion im having the same issues as above it crashes just before the finish line.
I have a new macbook air. I have a similar problem. Although, my movie won't crash at the end. I doesn't even really get started. It will show a little bit progress but never gets further and I have let it sit overnight.
Why does my i-movie keep quiting before exporting of movie is finished. I cannot export at all! Help!
